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I wanted to start a thread re: a common problem I encounter and I'm willing to bet many other players encounter as well. It pertains to individual cities captured by an ally in a war, which then host massive amounts of your allies' troops (often knights/medival infantry, or cavalry/riflemen, etc.) and sit there, sometimes in the middle of YOUR newly acquiring territory, perhaps threateningly.
I have a .sav with a perfect example of this problem, but unfortunately, I didn't bring it to work today... it'll have to wait until tomorrow. But in the meantime, envision this: France takes on Carthage, and beats it soundly, but needs the help of the nearby Celts to get the job done. France takes all the Carthaginian cities, except for a few small ones and one size-9 city, Hippo.
Hippo is ringed with French cities - some newly built, others recently captured - and is SWARMING with Celtic knights, medival infantry, Gaelic Swordsmen, etc.
Celtica is next on the list of French conquests. In fact, the Celtic luxuries and sources of iron are near to the French border, and easily accessible. But the troops stationed in Hippo threaten the very valuable newly captured Carthaginian cities.
The question is, how to deal with Hippo? Should one expend the troops crushing this one city, where the bulk of the Celtic army is no doubt kept? Or should one strike into the Celtic homeland, while the troops are away?
In general, this specific example aside (I know it's stupid to debate this example without seeing the .sav), how do you deal with these cities, and the AI tendency to pour loads of troops into them?
Y'all know what I'm talking about, right?
I have a .sav with a perfect example of this problem, but unfortunately, I didn't bring it to work today... it'll have to wait until tomorrow. But in the meantime, envision this: France takes on Carthage, and beats it soundly, but needs the help of the nearby Celts to get the job done. France takes all the Carthaginian cities, except for a few small ones and one size-9 city, Hippo.
Hippo is ringed with French cities - some newly built, others recently captured - and is SWARMING with Celtic knights, medival infantry, Gaelic Swordsmen, etc.
Celtica is next on the list of French conquests. In fact, the Celtic luxuries and sources of iron are near to the French border, and easily accessible. But the troops stationed in Hippo threaten the very valuable newly captured Carthaginian cities.
The question is, how to deal with Hippo? Should one expend the troops crushing this one city, where the bulk of the Celtic army is no doubt kept? Or should one strike into the Celtic homeland, while the troops are away?
In general, this specific example aside (I know it's stupid to debate this example without seeing the .sav), how do you deal with these cities, and the AI tendency to pour loads of troops into them?
Y'all know what I'm talking about, right?
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